song which they had fashioned themselves after the general model of Stevenson.
"Sixteen men
On the Sky-Waves' Crest,
Ho! Ho! Ho!
And a bottle of ink—
A pearl-like moon
And a couple of stars,
A planet or two
And the sun's gold bars.
Quite a nice haul—Don't
you think?"
Hung Long Tom with his folklore and legends had helped to make real the images which the tiny boy created.
Scobee was a colossal dreamer. Had dreams been banished from his life there wouldn't have been much left. But he dreamed in an impractical way. He wondered who had written the song which the wind played at night in the willows? Who invented language? And how did other people first understand him when he talked it? Who made the first hammer
so that they could use it to make other
